Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: strange downloading problem From: "William S. Huizinga" To: cygwin@cygwin.com In-Reply-To: <0ba601c1dcd3$dfeac600$0101a8c0@albion> References: <1018029590.4922.58.camel@vixen.si.com> <0ba601c1dcd3$dfeac600$0101a8c0@albion> Date: 05 Apr 2002 14:22:00 -0500 Message-Id: <1018034521.4922.64.camel@vixen.si.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-PAS6WyqbSg2m9I4TQQFj" --=-PAS6WyqbSg2m9I4TQQFj Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Nope, no joy. [root@vixen rts]# declare -x http_proxy=3Dhttp://enterprise.si.com:80 [root@vixen rts]# declare -x ftp_proxy=3Dhttp://enterprise.si.com:80 [root@vixen rts]# wget --proxy=3Don --proxy-user=3Dhuizinws --proxy-passwd=3Dxxxx http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe --14:07:33-- http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe =3D> `setup.exe.1' Connecting to enterprise.si.com:80... connected! Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 357,888 [application/octet-stream] 0K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 14% @=20 39.53 KB/s 50K .......... .......... ..... 21% @ 384.53 B/s 14:08:42 (1.10 KB/s) - Connection closed at byte 77113. Retrying. -- snip -- [root@vixen rts]# wget --proxy=3Don --proxy-user=3Dhuizinws --proxy-passwd=3Dxxxx --passive-ftp ftp://archive.progeny.com/cygwin/setup.exe --14:13:41-- ftp://archive.progeny.com/cygwin/setup.exe =3D> `setup.exe.3' Connecting to enterprise.si.com:80... connected! Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: unspecified [application/unknown] 0K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... @ 46.86 KB/s 50K .......... .......... ... @ 399.44 B/s 14:14:43 (1.19 KB/s) - `setup.exe.3' saved [75466] [root@vixen rts]# wget --proxy=3Don --proxy-user=3Dhuizinws --proxy-passwd=3Dxxxx ftp://archive.progeny.com/cygwin/setup.exe --14:16:20-- ftp://archive.progeny.com/cygwin/setup.exe =3D> `setup.exe.4' Connecting to enterprise.si.com:80... connected! Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: unspecified [application/unknown] 0K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... @ 35.16 KB/s 50K .......... .......... ... @ 398.65 B/s 14:17:23 (1.18 KB/s) - `setup.exe.4' saved [75466] pftp works no better. --- wsh On Fri, 2002-04-05 at 13:58, Cliff Hones wrote: > William S. Huizinga wrote: >=20 > > The download got to around 22% and then stopped, only to timeout 300 > > seconds later. I tried it again, same problem. I tried on each and > > every mirror to download setup.exe and got the same result. Sound like > > a bandwith problem? Well, sure, but I downloaded all the tarballs from > > on of the mirror site and got them all down fully and quickly. Only > > setup.exe refuses to download, and all of the mirrors. I have tried > > using IE on W2K, Mozilla on Linux, even straight ftp. All the same. > > > > I am behind a firewall, so maybe that has something to do with it. >=20 > Could well be. >=20 > > Any notions as to the source of this problem would be appreciated. >=20 > Three suggestions: >=20 > 1) Try a command-line ftp client which can do passive ftp > (eg pftp on Linux). >=20 > 2) Try wget with the cygwin home page URL http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe >=20 > 3) If your firewall normally does transparent proxying, but does > also act as an explicit proxy, try changing your IE proxy settings > to use the explicit proxy. > =20 > -- Cliff >=20 >=20 >=20 --=-PAS6WyqbSg2m9I4TQQFj Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQA8rflYGwbvHp0sJokRAm+cAJ0cdvtrwkdVtc4wKtAP/8CFSoPvugCfewds B91ela2DXk2BPA554QkdI7Y= =5KaS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-PAS6WyqbSg2m9I4TQQFj--